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Moved Alert Boxes / Confirmation Prompts to New UI System These were the final bit of UI remaining from the 2020 UI system we implemented, that was unfortunately a failed attempt. It was recursive and slow. It wasn't worse than the original system, but we still wanted to improve it. So... Goodbye Wolf UI To the ordinary player this doesn't mean much, but you should see a small performance increase of up to 10%. Improvements to Mailbox UI Added item hovers and resized certain elements Fixed bugs with Chatbox moving between Chat modes and PMs

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New Health Regeneration & Food Rework We've reverted the "health regeneration relying on Chakra Points being full" update along with speeding it up from 30s to 8s before the onset of regeneration. We've completed reworked it to now be a lot more accessible and visual. When you attack or go into any combat, you enter "Unrested" state. This is indicated clearly like so... The red "X" marks that you are no longer regenerating HP. When you see it do this, it means you have entered "Rested" state and will start regenerating HP again. How to Rest faster Additionally, sitting down on Chairs and Lying in bed speeds up the onset of "Rested" state by 100%. Using a food item will take 7 seconds to stand cast, and will instantly begin "Rested" state as well. Freebies Players who complete the "Missions! What's that?" Mission will be rewarded with complementary 60 food rations and another 40 when they reach level 10. We also intend to add more seats around early game training spots and also allow players to place their own eventually.

Important Notice In the latest update, we planned to launch a rework to HP Regeneration, this included making it so it was no longer linked to Chakra. Instead, it became a flat 30 seconds, but food items (with cast times) would get rid of that time completely. But unfortunately, the feature is incomplete at the moment and we failed to launch it. We'll try to get it out tomorrow, but for the time being Regen is back to 30s, same as it was before the HP Regen change a few months ago. Also, sitting down and laying down on beds will speed up the horizon of the "Rested" state where you can regenerate health. This includes player furniture. I'm sorry for the inconvenience, Medics going to be more useful for today! Mission Tracker now saves between game launches This is a client-side save, if you change between PCs, it will not transfer over. I think this is it for the mission tracker for now. Nin Online In-game Guidebook (Work In Progress) On the ESC Menu, there is now a button that opens the "Game Guide". You also will be informed that you can open a relevant article based on where you are in your leveling journey sometimes. Added support for loading GIFs into Nin Online UI For now this was added for the Guidebook UI, but who knows what we'll need it for in the future. Maybe Jutsu/Mastery previews?! "Learn More" type notifications & more kinds of notifications Added support for a new kind of notification response and new icons for different kinds of notifications. For example, Mail notifications now have a mail/letter/envelope icon on it. Notifications when you reach level 10 You will also get a notification when you reach level 10 that your stats have been reset and another informing you that you can get your first mastery. Pressing "Learn More" will bring you to your Ninja Menu and the guide book entry of Masteries respectively. Improved UI styling Most importantly, removed the ugly brown tint on the inner frames Fixed Mobs spawning in wall on Iron City, West Desert Valley, Sand Hive Grounds Fixed some major bugs with mission tracker and mission log that could cause Missions to wrongfully add twice or wrong mission to disappear Removed repeated, not working Emoticons from Emoticon Menu (when there was multiple /commands that called it)

Improved styling of the Mission Tracker Slightly more transparent background, slight border Fixed shadow in textbox text somethings wrapping wrongly Fixed mission logs sometimes having double entries (causing missions log to not load completely) (Structural changes) Server data types moved from modTypes to Type classes Fixed the following chatbox related bugs

Mission Log (and Tracker) can now display task statuses Until now, the Mission Objectives could only be displayed as one line objectives with limited functionality besides a single simple instruction. Now it can display multiple objectives as well as automatically mark each task as complete when you've achieved the task. Other Improvements to Mission Log (and Tracker) Added small text shadow to mission tracker and improved styling Added individual "Stop tracking" buttons next to each mission in the mission tracker Emoticons Menu This menu is available by clicking the button on the chatbox. It will open up a window that allows you to quickly select an emoticon. If you hover over an emoticon, it will also teach you the /command for it. (Admin Only) Added editor functionality to quickly start and abandon missions When an admin debugs a player's variables live, it will now update the player Fixed Clam Summon mist AoE attack not displaying animations when attacking other NPCs Fixed WarpTo Jutsu (eg. Seismic Dash Technique and Body Flicker Technique) range and not moving you to the front of the enemy Fixed NPCs attacking cloaked players Fixed abandoning daily missions potentially abandoning the wrong mission Fixed the following misc. issues (GMs Only) Fixed /mapreport crash (GMs Only) Improved /mapreport to not go back into search each time you change maps

New Mission Log This was a priority because we needed to expand the mission log to support more missions as players were getting their mission log full and this caused you to be unable to complete missions. When we first designed the quest log, we never saw the day players would have more than 10 missions at a time, so we didn't think we'd need a scroll bar. This solves this issue as well as makes the Mission Log more useful with the Mission Tracker! Mission Tracker Feature This is still in testing, we may make it save in the future, right now you have to set it up each login by entering the mission menu and pressing the "Start Tracking" button. Better Item Hovers on New UI like Send Mail You'll now see the Item Description in a very similar way to the Old UI system when you hover items in the Send Mail interface. Map Maximum Level Requirement Map can now be set to include a level range that's acceptable eg. a map that only Level 10-20 can enter Fixed hard lock bug Fixed bug where if you logged off in an Instance Map with an Equipment that has a Jutsu (eg. Concealment) it would hard lock your account Fixed the following misc. issues

Instance Map Warps We now have a way to warp players into 3 kinds of instances... Solo Instances Team Instances Team Instances with Auto Warp (Brings whole team on entrance map in automatically) This has been a long time coming, but we've had instances in the engine for awhile. Now we can use this for boss maps and in the future, full dungeons. (Admin/GMs) Most /commands can now use "Brackets" to enclose names or strings with spaces in them Previously, we couldn't warp to a player with numerical names. This solves that and also allows us to write cleaner commands in the future. (Admin/GMs) /mapreport now focuses on search bar by default, and Enter warps to the first search result NPC Aggro Bug Fixed 90% sure that it's fixed for good now. Took about 20 hours to solve this yesterday, honestly we received so much misinformation about this bug that it led me to a lot of wrong assumptions and rabbit holes that just made solving this harder. The hardest part about this bug was that it was no replicable on a local/test server, so I had to come up with methods to debug on the live server. Re-added NPC Logic Threading and A*Star Pathfinding that was previously disabled to test for this Fixed a bug where NPC's Projectile collision was being checked on projectile caster

(Admin/GMs) Moved /mapreport UI to new UI System (Admin Only) Can X/Y Offset negatives in Item Editor Light position Esc to escape PM Name Input dialogue brings you back to chat Lamps and Furniture that should be lighted now have lighting! Equipment lighting now properly hides with cloak of invisibility Fixed backspace on Drop/Buy/Sell X amount input dialogues Fixed Tab still going between game and chat in some cases Fixed Normal (Default) Black Eyes being Purple Fixed Eye selection on character creation Fixed Mission Log still acting as though it is visible when its not (when hovering items)

“Greetings from the player balance team. This patch will cover the next two masteries, Fire and both Weapon Master paths. With the addition of the projectile destruction mechanic, Int Weapon Master now has a very glaring weakness in that its 3 trap projectile jutsus can be destroyed once cast. To compensate for this, Int Weapon Master scaling is being increased with base damage adjustments. Dragon Fire’s damage potential from multi-hit 60% Int scaling Dragon Combo is being reduced so it’s slightly less oppressive. In the future, Str Weapon Master jutsus will receive an update at the same time their weapons are addressed. The focus of Str Weapon Master mastery will continue to be with the swords themselves. The next patch in July will focus on the Taijutsu, Gentle Fist, and Lightning masteries.” Developer Note: This is still only the first part of changes from the balance team for these masteries/playstyles. This contains the approved changes, as some of the changes are yet to be finalized. June 2022 Balance Patch: Fire and Weapon Master (Int+Str) Fire Mastery Big Flame Bullet Technique CP Cost increased from 20/20/20 to 30/30/30 Combusting Vortex Technique CP Cost decreased from 45/40/40 to 40/35/35 Combusting Vortex Technique no longer stuns Combusting Vortex Technique now interrupts Combusting Vortex Technique End Cast Time decreased from 1.2s/1.1s/1.1s to 0.6s/0.5s/0.5s Rank 3 Combusting Vortex Technique AoE radius increased from 5x5 to 7x7 Combusting Vortex Technique Burn DoT Rank changed from 2/2/2 to 2/2/3 Dragon Fire Technique Base Damage decreased from 40/40/41 to 34/34/35 Dragon Fire Combo Intellect Scaling decreased from 60% to 33% Weapon Mastery (Tools) Explosive Kunai Technique Base Damage decreased from 20/20/24 to 10/10/12 Kunai Explosion Base Damage decreased from 22 to 11 Great Explosive Kunai Technique Base Damage decreased from 24/28/28 to 12/14/14 Big Kunai Explosion Base Damage decreased from 24 to 12 Shadow Shuriken Technique no longer silences Kunai Explosion Intellect Scaling increased from 60% to 75% Big Kunai Explosion Intellect Scaling increased from 60% to 75% Triple Explosive Tag Technique Intellect Scaling increased from 60% to 75% Shadow Shuriken Technique Intellect Scaling increased from 60% to 75% Hidden Explosive Tag Technique Intellect Scaling increased from 60% to 75% Exploding Spiked Ball Technique Intellect Scaling increased from 60% to 75% Bear Trap Technique Intellect Scaling increased from 60% to 75% Weapon Mastery (Swords) Shockwave Slash Technique Projectile Hitbox changed from 1x1 to 3x1 to match animation -More changes are coming to WM Wind (Fan) Mastery Wind Barrage Technique no longer destroys projectiles Wind Mask Technique now destroys all projectiles Water (Bubble) Mastery Soap Explosion Technique now destroys weaker projectiles

Player Clans now display as an Icon beside the player's name instead of text Displaying the text could be confusing at times, not sure whether the player is named "Ueda" or "Hayashi Ueda" for example. This would complicate things like PMing individuals. Max Piercing for Projectile Jutsu We can now make it so certain jutsu only pierces X amount of times before being destroyed on the next hit target. For example, we can make Lightning Senbon pierce once. Eg. This is a projectile that pierces 2 people. Equipment can now have lighting effects We can now add items that when worn, glow and light up the surrounding area. Furniture can now have lighting effects We can now add furniture that can light up the surrounding areas. Eg. Street lamps, fireplaces, lanterns. Added Keybinds for World Map and Minimap Toggle By default the keybinds are "]" Right Bracket and "\" Backslash Moved Tournament Scoreboard to new UI system Also added scrolling for when there's a large tournament. Previously, it would cut off. Added more debug information for NPCs on /debug so players can help us with solving the enemy aggro bug Fixed PvP Mode sometimes changing for no reason Fixed Hover & Click effect of Mission Log shortcut button Fixed Tab going back into Chatbox unintentionally Fixed bug where players would sometimes be stuck in Leaf Academy Classroom

We're currently in the midst of trying to clean up the client of UI systems. We've added 3 UI systems in the past 2 years in an attempt to get one that will finally replace all the UI systems eventually. (UI means User Interface) Right now there's a total of 6 UI systems present in the engine, and we need to clean it up and move them all to a unified system. Moved Esc Menu to new UI System Added a smooth fade in/out of the darkened background Moved Cutscene Screen Flash effect to new UI System Added a smooth fade out of the white flash making it less glaring on the eyes New Report Player window with new UI System Moved login screen network status text to new UI System Fixed using /r Emoticon Fixed some UI elements remaining on screen while changing maps (Hopefully) Fixed UI sometimes becoming un-interactable for no apparent reason Fixed Chatbox being above Escape Menu Fixed FPS cap options (multiple options were displaying as 120 FPS) Made fake weather / disabled weather texture render in the correct order (Behind all UI) Fixed the following misc. bug reports

Added /debug option for players to help debug NPCs which lose aggro If you experience the issue where NPCs lose aggro, please record a video with "/debug" enabled Misc Fixes Fixed Player Sprites not rebaking when only difference is hair color intensity Chatbox Fixed previously broken "/r" feature If you type "/r <message>" you will send a reply to the last person who PMed you Changed default chatbox size (for new installations) to be around the same as old chatbox Added tabbing out of PM Player Input box Previously, you could tab in, but had to press enter to enter it. Tabbing back out now works. Fixed the slight jerk that happened when you hit enter to enter chat mode PM Player Input now keeps the name of the last person you PMed Friends Optimizations to Friends UI Threaded operations that require API calls to the forum. Sending requests and removing offline players as friends should no longer momentarily freeze the client. Player Right Click Menu Fixed the sizing of the "Unblock" button on right click menu Mailbox Fixed mailbox causing a client hang if you have no mail Esc Key to close Mailbox UI now works Run Indicator Moved HUD to render behind other new UI by default

Better looking Damage messages Damage dealt by you will now be orange so you can tell what is dealt to you vs. what you deal to enemies easily. Also improved the animation to add some randomness to the direction it moves to prevent the damage all stacking on the same position, and being unable to make them out. OurmYJq.mp4 Mostly finished up Automated Chunin Exam now...! Be prepared! Options Menu redone in New UI System With much better keybinds layout & tooltips for all options Mailbox & Sending Mail merged into one UI Mailbox is redone in new UI, works a lot faster, not as big of a delay when opening it anymore. Added "Mute Sound" and "Mute Music" buttons in options menu to temporarily disable them while still keeping your favorite volume levels Added a little text shadow to make reading chatbox text easier Moved Run Indicator to new UI system, moved position It was previously obscured by the new "More" button (Admin Only) Added feature to completely take control of an online player (GM/Admin) Shift + Right-click Minimap to Warp to that point on the map (Admin Only) Improved admin warp Now reflects instantaneously locally first Prevent Friends & Trade notifications from being spammed It will now only display one trade request from the player, and only allow it to be bumped when the old notification "on screen" timer has ended. Also added a rate limit for sending Party & Trade requests. Removed old method of text wrapping for fixed width chatbox All kinds of messages will now be displayed with fluid width Friends are now removed when you reset your character so they cannot be abused Fixed Mailbox not claiming from newest entry when clicking "Claim All Items" button Fixed Events, Shops, Drop Item Choices opening Chatbox Input (when hitting enter) Fixed pressing up and down on chatbox to get old messages exiting the chatbox Fixed not being able to remove a player from PM Fixed slugs not healing when player is in a Team

New Preliminary In-game Rank System We're moving as much of the rank system to not require Admins to add the ranks to players manually. Preliminary Automated Chunin Exam We're working on an automated chunin exam event. Added "Force Say" command to allow admins to force players to send text or commands (for debugging) (Hopefully) Fixed a bug causing NPCs to lose Aggro for minutes on end Fixed an instance map threading error Add Exile Date to Pardon warning message Fixed and Improved Kage Menu Ninja List Will now only receive ninja from own village

Chatbox Improvements & Fixes Tab now quickly opens Player Name Input Box Fixed crash caused by typing certain characters in Chatbox Fixed PM/Private Messaging Escape key now escapes from Player Name Input box Pressing Enter to return to hospital no longer triggers chatbox Shop window amount input no longer triggers chatbox Fixed PvP Button not changing between Red/Grey states (Regression)

New Chatbox pvfWvtx.mp4 C24ocwN.mp4 The new and improved chatbox comes with not just 1 adjustable size... but infinite, you can now even have a fullscreen chatbox if you'd like, or hide it all. The new chatbox comes with support for Undo/Redo Clipboard/Copy + Paste Text Wrapping based on chatbox width Channel Name Tooltips The old left command box is now replaced with a dropdown menu Proper scrollwheel (GMs Only) Quick access to admin, broadcast, global channels On top of that, the old feature of using Up and Down Arrow Keys for navigating past sent messages and commands is now improved to not save repeats. The reason I prioritized replacing this UI is because a large amount of typing is done here and the old input system had an issue where it would often miss key presses. This was very annoying. More improvements to Right-click menu Now handles Friend status better, improved sizing of buttons. Trade Requests & Party Invite Reworked Trade Requests and Party Invites are now dealt with as Notifications rather than the old method of showing them under the chatbox Optimized Game Rendering when Zoomed in Previously, the game still rendered characters, jutsu, NPCs off your screen when you were zoomed in because it used your full resolution. It will now use your adjusted resolution after zooming. Fixed Shadow Positions for Large NPCs Optimized Gafuki Artwork and fixed his name displaying far from him Added Male Sprite for Blue Winter Jacket that was missing (Admin Only) Map Editor clearing tiles is now undoable Fixed the following misc. bug reports

Reworked Buff Durations There's now settings to make a buff last forever, including past logging out and relogging in, and past death. There's now options to make them disappear on Death and on Logout. Added an option for Jutsu to apply Buffs/Debuffs Previously, they were done very hackily and led to many issues. This should resolve bugs where NPC DoTs happen to you despite the attack not landing. Kage Menu Previously, Kage menu was very bad. I don't know how else to describe it. It's been improved a lot, along with text editors for Village Message of the Day and Village Orders instead of requiring it to be typed into chatbox with commands. Kage will also have a button display for them at the bottom right of the screen to easily open the menu anytime. Previously this was done with "/kage". (Admin Only) Map Editor Improvements I know players will never see this, so I just made videos to showcase it. These are very normal things to have in map editors, we just never had them till now. Undo/Redo (Ctrl + Z / Ctrl + Y) Most people don't know this, but Nin Online's map editor did not have a Undo/Redo (Ctrl + Z / Ctrl + Y) until today. Whenever we made a mistake, we either had to redo the whole edit or manually fix it. Flood Fill / Flood Clear Tool Ctrl + Click now fills like a paint bucket tool. In the past, when we wanted to make a large map all water for example, or all the black parts of a map unwalkable, we'd have to manually put water tiles or blocked attributes on each position. Tile placement preview A preview of the tiles you're about to place is rendered where your cursor is now. Improved display of Attributes Better display of Block Attributes, Spawn Attributes, Map Warp Attributes, Shop Attributes and more.. (Admin Only) Fixed Map Editor Attributes Text Display (previously all cut off) (Admin Only) Fixed Map Editor Clear Layer and Fill Layer Buttons Made "You have received mail!" message cyan to not look like an error (it was previously red) Fixed a potential bug where if NPCs had more than 8 DoTs/HoTs/Buffs/Debuffs, they would not be affected by them Fixed Map Directional Blocks They were not taking into consideration diagonal movement. This would require hacky fixes from us or for us to fix things like... Fixed NPC AoEs not taking into consider size of enemy NPC Hitbox For example, if an NPC was 10x10, the AoE would've needed to hit the center of the enemy for it to register. Fixed NPC AoEs (Including Bubble Clone Explosion) only hitting its target with it's AoE Fixed a bug that would cause certain DoTs/HoTs/Buffs/Debuffs to last longer for NPCs than Players Added Green War Armor Female Art Added features to fix this Forgot to add this to last patch note

Item Packs We can now create bundles of items as a single item that open when you use the item. An example use of this would be a box containing 5x Blank Scrolls, 2x Blood Pills, 10x Chakra Pills etc. Fixed "Friend has come online!" and "Friend has went offline!" messages Updated Bingo Book Layouts It now says "Corps" instead of "Organization". Displays Fame of the selected Bounty Removed the "Today" text that was redundant Moved village symbol next to the player name instead of on the right. (Hopefully) Fixed a crash with very old graphics cards not supporting OpenGL debug information call incompatibility Fixed the following reported issues

This wasn't added but the idea of life steals mentioned here is added I posted a post asking players in Discord whether they wanted a Balance Team despite what I deemed as the negative impact it might have on content development speed. People unanimously voted for it, so I began weeks of work to implement it. A player was banned for spending weeks harassing me despite me doing every single thing he wanted, and explaining multiple times the nuances of why the dev team is how it is, he just responded with more insults each time. Took me weeks to finally decide to ban him because I value players a lot and even if they abuse their time with me, I try to accommodate for the most part, even though there's one of me and hundreds of players actively seeking my time. In May to June to July, we've maintained an average of fixing/resolving 100 player reported issues every 30 days https://www.ninonline.org/forum/issues/

Added Social Settings Turn on and off the following options. Sometimes you want to be the one sending the requests, maybe you're just that popular, your fame is 9000 and you only make friends when you decide. Maybe you want to hide your online status or hide your location because you're in a secret organization. There you go! Rate Limiter for sending friend requests You can't spam friend requests as much anymore. Improved transformation technique More accurately copy the target's details including title and title color. The only thing it doesn't copy now is the name color as that represents the access color of the target. This might change in the future but has been avoided for security reasons in the past (when you could transform into GMs/Admins). (Backend) Moved new friend system to use concurrent dictionaries instead of dictionaries Replaced term Buddy with Friend in the frontend of the Friend system This was used to differentiate code between the old and new systems while the old friend system code was still present in the codebase. Fixed bug that allowed players to send friend requests to empty name Fixed crashes related to right clicking a transformed player under certain scenarios

@Black Rain We are finally here!

This is added in the form of /removefriend or /friendremove in the latest version, along with the friend rework